Miscellaneous Hacks - WoW Character BBCode

This is a continuation of the project, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=160418 . I have made several modifications to the original authors code and several have asked for my modifications.

Because of this and the original authors lack of updating the original modification, I have decided to upload this package for all to use.

All credit goes to the original author(s) of the utility as i have only cleaned up the code and packaged it for easy usage.

WARNING!
This is very beta at this time. I have added the product now to force myself to update and maintain the plugin and to share it with the rest of my fellow World of Warcraft webmasters

Installation

1. Uninstall your existing WoW Char Code installation. I have changed the product ID itself and it may not update everything correctly.
2. Remove the clientscript/ajax_tooltip and clientscript/phparmory folders if they exist
3. Upload the contents of the "Upload" Folder to the ROOT directory of your forums (for example, if you have your forums installed in /home/mydir/public_html/forums , you would unzip into that folder.)
4. Import the product/product-WoWCharBBCode-?.??.xml file

Changelog

• 0.4.9b
  • Added basic Death Knight support
  • Fixed problem with characters with no professions (common with Death Knights)
• 0.4.9a
  • Fixed a minor issue with realms in spaces in the name
• 0.4.9
  • Added wysiwyg support
• 0.4.8a
  • Fixed a php parse error in functions_wowcharcode.php. you do not need to download the entire zip file, just replace your existing functions_wowcharcode.php file with the attached .php file
• 0.4.8
  • changed many items to OO code.
  • Added new debug log facility ( install https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...hreadid=176899 )
  • Added ability to paste a wow armory URL and have it create an appropriate character link (i.e. paste http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...man&n=Geophery and it creates [char=Uldaman]Geophery[/char]
• 0.4.7a
  • Removed some left over debugging statements and info in the product and php file.
• 0.4.7
  • Changed the backend armory code.
  • Updated caching to not cache Armory results that end up as errors
  • Added character class, race and professions as vbphrases.
  • Added KR and TW Armory locales. (, etc)
  • Some minor fixes.
• 0.4.4
  • Added Icon caching to help with slow armory. Images are cached by default in the armory folder. chmod this folder to 777 and icons will be automaticly cached to this folder.
  • You can now use the variable $wowchar_code in the postbit (or postbit_legacy) to display the character tooltip in a post.
• 0.4.3 Fixed issue with rebuilding post cache.
• 0.4.2 Added option to show/hide realm if a default realm is set.
• 0.4.1 Fixed an issue if the character doesnt have armory data, Only change is in functions_wowcharcode.php file.
• 0.4
  • All Character stat text are now phrases. you will find a new Phrase Type in the Phrase Manager ( WoW BBCode Phrases )
  • Added default realm option so one does not need to use the [char=server] option when specifying characters on own realm.
  • Customized the stat display per class and on some specs (such as feral v.s. resto druids). see an example at http://www.dramaloot.com/forums/showthread.php?p=19271

• 0.3
  • Armory Caching works for both US and EU armorys.
  • Removed un-used files.
  • Put the majority of the codes HTML creation as templates and use vbulletins ajax.php and hooks.
  • Added options for default locale (armory) to use (currently EU and US armories).
  • Added option to disable caching of the Armory (i use it to test armory retrieval)
  • Added ability to specify what armory the character / realm you would like, see usage notes below.
• 0.2
  • Armory Caching never actually worked properly, this should now be fixed.
  • Remove the includes/functions_wow3bbcode.php file. This has been replaced by a plugin.
  • Remove the clientscript/phparmory/config.php file. This isnt needed.
  • Major updates to phparmory.php
  • Minor Plugin changes + code cleanup.

ToDo

• New tooltip javascript
• New character sheet.
• Create easy to modify interface for character stats to be displayed in tooltip.

Usage
Using the character code is easy enough,
[char]CHARACTER[/char] if default realm option is set and character links is on same realm.
For characters not on the same realm as the default,
[char=SERVER]CHARACTER[/char]
For example,
[char=Vek'nilash]Azaril[/char]
Or, if you want to link a character profile from another locale (i.e. EU realms) , you simply add EU- before the server name.
[char=EU-Vek'nilash]Azaril[/char]

The same thing applies to linking US realm characters from a EU default forum.

See a working example at http://www.dramaloot.com/index.php?id=officer_cl (This is a vbadvanced custom page using the BBCode page type).

Added German translation for what i currently have localized. Provided by jluerken http://www.wow-relaxed.de

[Truestyle]

I made it work but not in the way it should work.
I modified the functions_wowcharcode.php file.

I made the following change :

	function SetRealmName( $realmname )
	{
		$this->realmname = "Kul Tiras";

This way it does load up the character name.

But this also shows that the plugin somehow does not accept the realmname in " " format.
Maybe you can find out why it is not processing the realmname in the right way when there is a space involved in the realmname.

[sweede]

Thats odd.

I tried using Dark Iron and it didnt work. the URL that was being used had a url encoded + in it ( wowarmory likes to see spaces replaced with a + )

Removing the urlencode, which changed the URL back to having the + (instead of %2B) caused several of my test entries to work.

setting the realm name by hand as you have done, shouldnt cause your setup to instantly work unless you have done other modifications to the code or are using an old version.

[Caerydd]

I hadn't noticed this issue, and I'm on a realm name -The Sha'tar- which has a space, but then I haven't updated recently, and that realm name is used by default so all my users just use [char]username[/char]

[sweede]

<a href="http://underthemain.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2" target="_blank">http://underthemain.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2</a>

for anyone that is interested, the above is the sute where I dev and you'll be able to see the latest char sheet changes.

one big change is that I'm moving to its own config option page in vbb, but that's till a ways off

[sweede]

Oh, and something for you wonderful vbb 3.7 users


http://underthemain.net/forums/member.php?u=1
(click the wowcharprofile tab)

[Truestyle]

Originally Posted by sweede

setting the realm name by hand as you have done, shouldnt cause your setup to instantly work unless you have done other modifications to the code or are using an old version.

I am using Vbb 3.6.7 at the moment.
I downloaded your most recent version from this site.
Other then a few plugins i have no special file edits on my forum site.

I am just glad I got it to work.

[quarum]

Question -

I use vBadvanced - my forums are all in the /vb folder but my index.php is located in the root of my site.

This mod works on the forums, but on the index.php page in my root the images are all missing.

Any idea why the images would not show up in the root but they do in the /vb?

Thanks all!

[sweede]

It's pathing issues. I'll have to add another option to the wowchar code options to fix it.

[quarum]

Originally Posted by sweede

It's pathing issues. I'll have to add another option to the wowchar code options to fix it.

I updated to 48a and now it will not even work on the vBadvanced home page. When I upgraded I removed all files as well and did a full install from 47 to 48a.

[sweede]

Originally Posted by quarum

I updated to 48a and now it will not even work on the vBadvanced home page. When I upgraded I removed all files as well and did a full install from 47 to 48a.

It appears that vba CMPS rewrites urls in things like <javascript> tags so that it finds them in the correct location. I wasnt aware that it did that.

Edit the WoWChar_headerinclude template and replace the first 3 lines of the template with the following

<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/wowbbcode_js/ajax-dynamic-content.js" defer="DEFER"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/wowbbcode_js/ajax.js" defer="DEFER"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/wowbbcode_js/ajax-tooltip.js" defer="DEFER"></script>